Speedrun Math

A website to help elementary school students practice basic/fundamental math skills repeatedly and develop an understanding of the subject.

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Inspiration

We were inspired by our community and how many elementary schoolers need help with fundamental math basics. One of our siblings is currently in elementary school and the websites original intended purpose was to help him practice. We later developed the idea that this could help a range of young students especially in county where many students have trouble with math.

What it does

Using flask and python, it generates different questions in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in many different formats too help quiz students. It provides features like the number of questions, the range of the questions, and even hints to help students get more answers correct. The elementary schoolers will be using these basic skills in there future lives.

How we built it

We built it using basic webpage languages HTML, CSS, PHP, and Javascript. The main components of this website rely on Python and Flask to generate problems. We used basic templates incorporated the theme into the UI, and used a mix in between Flask and Python to help with generative things and a mix between 'GET' and 'POST'.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into some problems with redirecting the render template to the question generated pages, instead of back to the pure html pages. We also had issues with github linking the main, the branches, and the forks for different changes we were trying to commit.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of using Flask diligently, adn completing our agenda.

What we learned

We learned that github is annoying and flask is more annoying. But we also learned more syntax that we never knew, and coll features of Flask that were really helpful in the building project.

What's next for Speedrun Math

We really want to create adaptive tests, and make use AI to help students develop a better understanding of the topic. We want to eventually 'gamify' the app by making a 2D jumping game that helps test math along with the obstacles. Our plan is to work on this repeatedly and launch an app/business directed to solving this problem in our community. One of parents is also a teacher and we want to work with marketing this to her class.

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